adipocere

How to use adipocere in a sentence

• He is the first to observe and describe that curious product of the decomposition of flesh known to modern chemists as adipocere.

  Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 6 | Various

• Hatchettine or rock-fat is sometimes called adipocere; and bog-butter is a substance nearly similar to it.

  Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I | Arnold Cooley

• Besides, dead animal matter38 can be worked up more profitably than in making artificial adipocere.

  Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I | Arnold Cooley

• There was not a trace of adipocere—the peculiar waxy soap that forms in bodies that decay in water or in a damp situation.

  The Vanishing Man | R. Austin Freeman

• The autopsy on the exhumed body of Perrotte Mace was inconclusive, owing to the condition of adipocere.

  She Stands Accused | Victor MacClure